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Bitcoin News posted on X that Mark Karpeles has launched a webpage to document reported cases of Ledger hardware implants, compiling cases he has reviewed and verified through public reports and images shared on X. The database also allows users to submit new cases to track the potential scope of the ongoing Ledger supply chain security incidents.
Cathie Wood posted on X that ARK Venture Fund has launched onchain through Securitize, with the fund's portfolio, liquidity, and minimum investment threshold remaining unchanged. She stated that, based on ARK research, tokenization has the potential to fundamentally change how investors participate in private and public financial markets; the onchain launch of ARK Venture Fund is an extension of its mission to broaden investor access to technology-driven innovation opportunities.
Odaily News: On October 12, the Bank of Russia added Sberbank, the country's largest bank, to the register of institutions authorized to trade digital currencies, allowing it to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in its own name and with its own funds. Six days earlier, Sberbank had been included in the list of digital custody institutions.Sberbank plans to launch its first cryptocurrency products on SberBank Online, SberInvestments, and SberBusiness starting December 1, initially supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT issued by Tether. The exact launch timing depends on decisions by the Bank of Russia and the readiness of accompanying regulations.Under relevant laws, retail investors may trade no more than 300,000 rubles per year through a single intermediary and must pass a knowledge test; using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods within Russia remains illegal. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: The public chain Solana will launch the Alpenglow upgrade on its mainnet at approximately 15:00 (UTC) on October 21, completely replacing its validator consensus system. The upgrade will phase out TowerBFT, with the goal of reducing transaction finality from the current approximately 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.Alpenglow adopts Votor, which moves vote transactions out of blocks, allowing validators to communicate directly and generate certificates; final confirmation can be achieved in the first round with 80% or more stake support, while support rates between 60% and 80% will enter a second round of voting.After the upgrade, vote transactions will no longer be counted in blocks, and Solana's public transaction count and TPS will drop significantly, but actual activity will not decrease as a result. Ordinary users do not need to take any action, and the Solana Virtual Machine, transaction format, programs, and fees will all remain unchanged.The feature switch will be activated at epoch 1064, and TowerBFT will continue to run for approximately 5,000 slots, or about 18 minutes, after which Alpenglow will take over. Each vote account will need to pay an additional validator admission fee of 0.8 SOL, which will be burned; the launch date of the Rotor upgrade has not yet been announced. (Decrypt)
Sui announced on X that 82 million Galaxy devices in the US will gain Sui support within Samsung Wallet, and USDC transfers on Sui will not require network fees.
Odaily News: The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a report on "debanking," stating that some banks have used public and non-public policies to restrict financial services for multiple industries, including crude oil, natural gas, tobacco, firearms, and digital assets. The report notes that some institutions restricted digital asset businesses, including issuers, exchanges, and managers, often citing financial crime concerns as the reason.The OCC stated that the report was prepared in accordance with an executive order signed by Donald Trump in August 2025, which aims to prevent what it calls "illegal debanking." The report reviewed 9 major banks but did not list specific cases related to digital asset businesses, nor did it comprehensively quantify the scope of debanking or related allegations.OCC head Jonathan Gould said that some debanking decisions related to coal and firearms were not based on financial risk, with banks citing reputational risks from negative news, public protests, and support for related industries. In November 2024, more than 30 tech and crypto industry executives said they were unable to access banking services. (Cointelegraph)
crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on X platform, noting that a review by the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) found that the nine largest national banks in the United States all employ reputation risk policies to varying degrees, allowing political factors, public opinion, and social pressure to potentially influence which customers banks decide can access financial services.Terrett cited OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould's remarks at a press conference, stating that coal and firearms industry businesses are among the groups most affected, and cryptocurrency firms have also been mentioned in reports. The report calls on the U.S. Congress to take measures to prevent financial institutions from denying banking services based on political factors.
Odaily News: Hyperliquid HIP-3 has generated a cumulative $75 million in revenue, of which $37.5 million goes to deployers, and the other $37.5 million is used for Hyperliquid native token buyback and burn. HIP-3 is a mechanism for deployers to launch perpetual markets on Hyperliquid. Deployers can define their own oracle and contract specifications and are responsible for operations, while reusing the protocol's infrastructure such as the order book and liquidations. Fees from the relevant markets are typically split between deployers and the protocol proportionally, and the protocol-side revenue can be used for buyback and burn.
Ledger's security team Donjon has released an update on its investigation via the X platform, stating that in response to a German user's report of a potentially tampered device, the team has inspected devices in retail and distributor inventory across multiple locations in Germany, including the store mentioned by the user involved, and found no signs of tampering.Ledger stated that no reports of financial losses related to implanted malicious devices have been received within Europe so far. Regarding the suspicious devices displayed online, the security team has not yet obtained the physical units for testing, and has invited the device holders to send them to Ledger's security team for further analysis and public disclosure of the investigation results.
Tarek Mansour, CEO of prediction market company Kalshi, said that if U.S. courts side with states claiming gambling regulatory authority over such businesses, Kalshi would be forced to move overseas.Despite two federal courts having ruled against its position, Tarek Mansour said he remains "quite confident" about Kalshi's legal standing in the United States. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Ondo Finance has announced that its platform's total value locked (TVL) has surpassed $4 billion, marking a new milestone. Among this, tokenized stocks and ETF assets exceed $1.3 billion, with cumulative holders across its various products surpassing 1 million. Ondo claims it is currently the largest tokenized U.S. Treasury platform.Ondo stated that the platform is expanding from tokenized U.S. Treasuries into asset classes such as stocks, ETFs, portfolios, and private markets. Its Ondo Stocks connects to traditional financial exchange liquidity through a request-for-quote (RFQ) mechanism, and with the support of its wallet and app, enables permissionless transfers of related tokenized assets across Solana, Ethereum, and BNB Chain.
Manus announced the launch of Manus for Business on the X platform, featuring two versions: Manus for Teams and Enterprise. The official account @ManusAI stated that team workflows are undergoing a fundamental shift, with everyone from product managers to marketing teams truly becoming AI-native, and the company aims to integrate the experience gained during this process into its products. The materials did not disclose details regarding pricing for the two versions, feature differences, available regions, or launch timelines.
MiniMax Design Agent V3 has officially launched. The official announcement states that the new version cuts creative costs by over 30%, with improvements in both speed and intelligence. The updated workflow allows users to reuse assets and share context across conversations within the same creation page, and they can also customize Agent instructions to align with their personal style. As for member rewards, 1,000 free credits are available daily from October 13 to 16, totaling up to 4,000 credits.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino tweeted that Tether AI's QVAC platform has officially launched the speech-to-text model TranscribePsy, featuring 250 million parameters and support for 25 European languages, specifically optimized for local execution on smartphones and laptops. On the iPhone 17 Pro Max Neural Engine, it takes just 1.65 seconds to transcribe a 10-minute audio recording. The model does not require cloud support, adopts a decentralized peer-to-peer architecture, and emphasizes local operation, high privacy, and cross-hardware compatibility.
Chainlink's Data Feeds and Data Streams have officially gone live on the Stellar network. Stellar stated that developers can leverage these to access reliable market data and build DeFi applications such as lending markets, prediction markets, and perpetual contracts, further unlocking the utility of Stellar's over $4 billion RWA ecosystem.
Odaily News: According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Bitcoin News released a podcast in which former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès and Foundation CEO Zach Herbert discussed the largest supply chain attack in crypto industry history. Mark Karpelès stated that he discovered the spy implant 3 weeks before the funds were stolen and contacted Ledger, but received no response. The implant had a built-in hidden cellular modem that could directly read the seed phrase on the screen and passed Ledger's own checks; even setting a passphrase could not prevent the seed phrase from being stolen. Mark Karpelès said that with $5 million, he could create an implant that would only be detectable through X-ray. The episode also discussed the hardware wallet reseller model, the Malaysian reseller behind the attack, on-chain tracking of stolen crypto assets, the spread of the attack to Europe, why Trezor was not targeted, hardware wallet security, and multi-party computation solutions. The episode timeline shows that the amount stolen from hardware wallets reached $100 million, with $86 million transferred out within 24 hours.
According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed fintech firm Perpetuals.com (PDC) has formally submitted notice to operate a tokenized U.S. stock trading venue under the SEC’s five-year "innovation exemption" framework. The exemption permits specific markets to trade U.S. equities on public blockchains without registering as traditional securities exchanges, provided that the tokens carry identical shareholder rights to common stock, including dividend and voting rights. Perpetuals.com is the second company to apply for this exemption, following OKX and OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. Its U.S. market will be managed by Delaware-based subsidiary Kephas Corporation, facilitating trades through AMM liquidity pools on the Ethereum-compatible layer-2 network Kronos X Public, with the initial trading pair consisting of U.S. stock tokens and USDC. CEO Patrick Gruhn previously oversaw operations at FTX Europe and contributed to the development of early stock token products at both Binance and FTX. A full launch is anticipated as early as mid-November.
Odaily reports: According to Flap monitoring, EWY is the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF, which tracks the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index and the overall performance of large- and mid-cap South Korean listed companies. EWYB brings this exposure on-chain and is now live as a Quote Token on Flap. To support smooth trading and enhance market accessibility, Flap has provided liquidity for the EWYB trading pair to improve the trading experience and reduce slippage.
According to a post by Xie Jiayin on X, Bitget now supports transferring more than 3,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs from external brokerages and converting them into U.S. stock tokens, rTokens.
TRON founder Justin Sun recently gave an exclusive interview to Bonnie Blockchain, making it rare for him to open up about his personal upbringing and industry judgments. Sun revealed that at age nine, he was sent to boarding school by his parents, who later divorced, forcing him to live independently from that point onward. He summarized this experience as "extreme loneliness is also a form of freedom"—while most people do not truly make decisions for themselves until they are 18 or even 30, he began doing so at age nine. This premature independence shaped the underlying mindset behind his later audacious moves, such as paying $6.2 million for an absurdly priced banana, signing deals with Moon, and bidding on a lunch with Warren Buffett. Sun issued a warning regarding Quantum Threat Day (Q-Day), stating that if quantum computers crack Satoshi Nakamoto's early public keys, approximately one million BTC could be unlocked, delivering a catastrophic impact on the market—a risk he believes Wall Street and institutions like BlackRock have severely underestimated. While the Bitcoin community has been slow to upgrade, TRON has already deployed NIST post-quantum cryptography standards on its testnet. Sun also established the "Justin Sun Award," offering up to $1 million in rewards through a vulnerability bounty model for major mathematical breakthroughs, open to both humans and AI, with OpenAI already securing one of the top prizes.